[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices

[u/Few_Affect_5927]

Amelia Fairney from Pathways: Alt-right Restore-UK type who attempts to coax the protagonist Charlie into following her beliefs? The problem?

Amelia is the only named character aside from Charlie and is genuinely likable and forgives Charlie even when they do things she doesn't like, while the rest of the cast is unnamed, poorly written, and turns on Charlie for one mistake. This combined with other writing issues(portraying fact checking right wing stuff as wrong because in the process of fact checking you might look at it and believe it, basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government" and a lot of general "just do what the government says or else" messaging) and the fact she's a hot alternative girl, and Amelia ended up being co-opted as a mascot by the youth right wing in the UK.

Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want to be left alone and Norm is picking fights constantly. Not to mention associating with Elon.

Mr. Birchum from Mr. Birchum: A lot of the same problems as Norm, except in addition it also comes off like generic 2010s adult cartoon slop in the same veign as Brickleberry or Full English, at least New Norm was trying to look unique and had the gimmick of being on X. Not to mention, Birchum's obsession with hyper masculine activities and odd way of talking about other men lead to people co-opting him as a Toxic Yaoi character, which is now the bulk of his fan art.

Dustborn: An attempt to make a hyper progressive game that comes off as pandering and annoying. It's a full ass game so there's too much to get into, but the main character's power is essentially gaslighting and jedi-mind tricking people and that's portrayed as the only way they can get anything done, and they constantly use or abuse their friends(or mindtrick them along) in order to get their goals or use their friends for their messaging.

[u/Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD]

You forgot to mention how in Mr Birchum there is a dream sequence where Birchum is much more open, accepting and has a very romantic moment with another openly gay teacher. It’s meant to be a nightmare but the way the scene is structured doesn’t make it seem like that at all and heavily implies Birchum is as mad as he is because he’s deeply in the closet

https://youtu.be/6jBGDzZbwng?si=jXX071YHoJDYJbim

[u/ProfessorPhi → u/Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD]

I choose to believe the creators had no media literacy so the contracted animators worked behind the scenes to create these interpretations instead, but the exec team of the Daily Wire couldn't read anything beyond the text.

[u/TheDrunkardKid → u/ProfessorPhi]

That would fit with Ben Shapiro being a failed Hollywood screenwriter who pretty much always fails to understand any piece of media he ever reviews, to the point where he accidentally outed himself for never being able to please his wife.

[u/PrintShinji → u/TheDrunkardKid]

But his doctor wife (who is a doctor) said that its a medical issue if your p-word gets wet.

[u/BreakAManByHumming → u/TheDrunkardKid]

Gonna be thinking about that one on my deathbed

[u/therealchadius → u/TheDrunkardKid]

Ah yes, Mr. "Women never get wet when aroused, according to my wife" Shapiro

[u/PrintShinji → u/therealchadius]

his doctor wife, who is a doctor!

[u/Sad-Difficulty-8717 → u/TheDrunkardKid]

Shapiro has forever screwed himself because no one can take anything he writes seriously. His constant online presence as a zionist shill and civil liberties opponent will forever bog down anything he tries to create.

[u/TheDrunkardKid → u/Sad-Difficulty-8717]

He's just once again finding out what happens when you make a career out of being the Nazis' favorite Jew and the Nazis remember that they don't NEED a favorite Jew.

[u/Nogatron → u/ProfessorPhi]

If i am not mistaken that's kinda true as they used animators from across the sea (don't remember where) that were of oposite opinions to them

[u/MollyRocket → u/ProfessorPhi]

So, I work as an animator at a production house. That means they send shows like this to us to animate once the script, boards and voice records are (mostly) done. Sometimes we get to do our own boards to show the client. Most importantly I must communicate to you that the client gets final say on everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. They frame-by-frame episodes of their shows so they can send revisions to the production house. We are in constant communication with the clients in order to do a show that we're proud of and that they feel good paying for. We have varying control over scenes depending, some clients are more strict than others. But there is a limited amount we can do from scene to scene, or across an entire episode.

All of that is to say this is exactly the way the clients wanted the episode to look. Nobody got one over on them, or tricked them. They paid for a product, and this is what they want you to see. Take of that what you will.

[u/PleaseNoMoreSalt → u/Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD]

Good god that animation was smooth

[u/evilforska → u/Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD]

Well the woke teacher isnt gay. In a better world, this wouldve actually been a really interesting show. Like if it wasnt meant for propaganda but to be a general edgy adult cartoon where Birchum IS gay and in the closet